The Owls are young, and return all four pitchers. They finished 30-30, which I believe is their worst record ever, which just shows how quickly coach Joan Joyce built a winner and how long she has kept it at a high level.

Unlike baseball, which is in a serious slide that has become a pattern, I view this season as an aberration and I think the Owls will be back near the top of the Belt next year, tough catching up to ULL could be tough.

BACKS TO THE WALL. AGAIN

And baseball moved perilously closer to not even making it into the tournament by losing badly Saturday. That makes today’s tilt pretty much a must-win, because if they don’t beat Ark State, then the Owls will probably stay in 10th place and the Wolves will own the tiebreaker.

And when baseball bows out, quite possibly this coming Saturday in their final regular season game, the DSD’s will kick in for sure.

Baseball’s slide has been steady. No injuries to blame this season. Mainly just no reliable starting pitching. Hopefully the hurlers learned something and can make some strides in the offseason.

FAU needs to at least get back to competing for the conference title, rather than just hoping to get into the postseason tournament.

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DIETER KURTENBACH a Chicago native and 2010 Missouri School of Journalism graduate, has covered Missouri Tigers athletics for KCOU radio and the Columbia Missourian, Major League Soccer for Comcast SportsNet-Chicago, and lunch orders for ESPN Radio-Chicago. Kurtenbach was part of the Missourian team that earned first place in "Breaking News" at the 2010 Associated Press Sports Editors awards, but his real passion is his constant quest to find the world’s best sandwich – if you have a tip, don’t hesitate to send it his way.